From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gelonida N Subject: git alias and --help Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:20:56 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 28 00:21:17 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJYK4-0007CE-01 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:21:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754337Ab1J0WVL (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:21:11 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:41827 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751163Ab1J0WVL (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:21:11 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJYJx-00079p-LF for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:21:09 +0200 Received: from unicorn.dungeon.de ([81.56.82.123]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:21:09 +0200 Received: from gelonida by unicorn.dungeon.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:21:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: unicorn.dungeon.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110921 Lightning/1.0b2 "" Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I'm having a tiny question about git aliases. in ~/.gitconfig I defined an alias b = branch This works well execp if I type git b --help Now I get the output `git b' is aliased to `branch' which is nice to know however what I reall wanted is to get the helptext for the branch command. Is there any trick to get the help text of git branch without having to type git branch --help